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Hiii, this is the final version of one of my excercises for school, as it's in an impressionistic style I decided to give it a french name! It means "arriving boats at the quay" Ejercicio No 13 1.pdf Ejercicio No 13 1.mp3

Here is a short piece, which I wrote recently. It is in a Chopin-like style. I have not made any pedal indications, because most musicians would probably want to decide on this themselves. But I could add them of course. I would be very interested to learn what you think of the piece.

Here are two dinky renaissance keyboard pieces I wrote for some informal/ goofy competitions on various discord servers....in both cases we were given a theme that we were supposed to use.......Feel free to comment anything at all.

Hello again. Here I am again with another orchestral adaptation. Let me know what you think and what stuff you would change related to the orchestral notation, doublings and instrument ranges. Thanks for listening! 🙂

I really enjoyed the technical complexity/skill ... to play your composition. And you played it so beautifully. Yes, it's a bit Chopinesque ... and quite enjoyable to listen to ... Mark

Hey Mike, (not intrusive to say “Hey”), I don’t know why I write with more and more Pentatonics. It seems like I’m more attracted to it after writing the pentatonic passage in the fourth movement of my Clarinet Quintet as hinted by @Thatguy v2.0. The intro is quite out of place, except the rhythmic motive and the first half of it keeps being used in the 2nd Episode. I think of removing it to maintain the coherence, but at last I keep it. The opening theme is written without any emotion at all LoL, and I never realise its beauty until probably a year later. At the time of writing it it sounds weirdly official and a routine slow movement melody to me, but that can be a bias. I now know it’s quite good haha. The melody in 2:40 is the one I love much more, since it contains the painful emotions I suffered last few months. I am afraid the harmony is too simple but I decide to keep it as the melody with the flourishing notes and counterpoint is already quite complicated. The 6:10 is the false recapitulation of the opening theme. I like the way I twist it to F minor. And all those key changes are easy, they are octatonically related keys. I just let the music go where they want and I almost have no control on that haha! The 8:35 breathing point as @PeterthePapercomPosernoted is deliberate. I want the pentatonic keeps flourishing and it makes the sufferer forgets his own suffering by just hearing the pentatonic notes, like one forget his own pain when noticing a utopian world. Thx! I always put coherence as the most important aspect in my music, since without it my music would be just fortuitous sketches combined together. Thx for your recommendation haha! Henry

Would be useful to know what you think is good...and not so good, so that I can work on it for future recordings. Thanks

Hi @Samuel_vangogh, I really like the mixolydian used in the music. The counterpoint sounds nice, and the quartal chord as well. B. 19 sounds like English Renaissance music to me as well! I think you portray a great mysterious mood here. Maybe you can make the themes more apparent too, but that’s personal opinion since the less apparent theme definitely helps the mood. Thx for sharing! Henry

Hi @Symphonic, I have to admit I only listen to part I of the video, but nice playing, chord progression and counterpoint! I myself am not familiar with Rach’s 3rd Piano Concerto so I cannot give any feedback on the relationship of this expression with the concerto. Thx for sharing! Henry